Stool.



Patented June 25, I 9OI. A. ll. CUBRIER.

No. e77,|ao.

STOOL.

(Application filed Dec. 18, 1900.)

(No Model.)

WITNE SSE 8 A7TOHNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

ALFRED MAXWELL OURRIER, OF ST. REGIS FALLS, NEW YORK.

STOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,180, dated June 25,1901,

Application filed December 18, 1900. Serial No. 40,266. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED MAXWELL OURRIER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of St. Regis Falls, in the county of Franklin andState of New York, have invented a new and Improved Stool, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to furniture; and its object is to provide a newand improved stool for use as a piano-stool or the like and which issimple and durable in construction and arranged to move horizontally toenable the user to reach about in the immediate neighborhood withoutleaving the seat.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations ofthe same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out inthe claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate cor responding parts in boththe views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement,-and Fig. 2 is a planview of the same with parts in a different position.

The improved stool consists, essentially, of a base A, a support B, anda seat 0, vertically adjustable in the support B, as hereinafter morefullydescribed. The base A comprises the standards A A and a connectingbar A and on the latter are hinged the end sections B 15 of thesupport B, having a middle section 13 hinged to the end sections B BFrom the middle section B rises up- .wardly and forwardly an arm 13*,formed in its free end with a nut B in which screws the screw-rod O ofthe seat 0 to permit of adjusting the latter vertically to suit theconvenience of the user. By the arrangement described the seat 0 can bebodily moved from right to left in a straight line, preferably inalinement with the connecting-bar A, so that the user of the seat canmove, for instance, in front of a piano from one side to another, so asto readily reach the keys of the keyboard, or in case the device is usedin front of a desk the user can conveniently reach about in theimmediate neighborhood of the desk.

It is understood that by having the support B made in sections hingedtogether, as shown, the operator when seated on the seat 0 can readilymove the latter from one side to the other, as the sections 13 B B swingcorrespondingly to allow the desired movement. The proportion of thehinged sections is rel= ative to three sides of a hexagon, with a rightangle of ninety degrees from the center of the middle section to thecenter of the hexagon.

It is further understood that as the center of gravity of the seat 0intercepts the connecting-bar A no matter in what position the seat maybe, it is evident that the stool is not liable to be upset by the user.

. Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. A stool comprising a series of sectionsjointed together and a seat supported on one of said sections, supportsto which the end sections are jointed and means connecting such supportssubstantially as set forth.

2. A stool comprising a series of sections jointed together, supports towhich the end sections are jointed, an arm projecting from the middlesection into the angle formed between the same and the end sections andthe seat carried by said arm substantially as set forth.

3. A stool comprising a base, a seat, and a support for said seatconsisting of a number of sections extended'in longitudinal series, andjointed together at their meeting ends, the outer ends of the outersections of the series being jointed to the base substantially as setforth.

4. A stool, comprising a base, a support, and a seat, the supportconsisting of a plurality of sections hinged together, the end sectionsbeing hinged to the base and the middle section carrying the seat, asset forth.

5. A stool, comprising a base having standards and a connecting-bar, asupport made in sections, of which the end sections are hinged to saidbar and the middle section carries an arm having a nut, and a seathaving a screw-rod screwing in said nut and extending over saidconnecting-bar, as set forth.

6. A stool consisting of a seat-support corn- ICC prising anintermediate bar-section and end name to this specification in thepresence of bar-sections jointed together, the seat carried twosubscribing Witnesses.

by the intermediate section and movable laterally in approximately astraight line, and ALFRED MAXWELL CURRIER' 5 supports to which the endsections are jointed lVitnesses:

substantially as set forth. W. B. BABCOOK, In testimony whereof I havesigned my V. R. DOWNER.

